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Ashkan Zarnani
Personal Information:
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Born on: January 18th, 1983
Born in: Tehran, IRAN
Address: FACIA LAB, ETL W5-020, ETLC Building, University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Canada
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Homepage: http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~azarnani
Education:
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2009-?, PhD Student in Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Canada.
Supervisor: Dr. Petr Musilek
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2004-2006, Master of Science in Computer Software Engineering (Information
Technology), University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Thesis: Spatial Data Mining and Its Application in Bank Business Intelligence
Supervisors: Dr. Masoud Rahgozar, Dr. Caro Lucas
GPA: 17.84/20
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2000-2004, Bachelor of Science in Computer Software Engineering, Bu-Ali Sina
University, Hamedan, Iran.
Thesis: Analysis and Design of a Virtual University System
Supervisor: Dr. Miorhossein Dezfoulian
GPA: 15.77/20
Research Interests:
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Machine Learning (and generally Cognitive Science)
Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Spatial Data Mining
Computational Intelligence
Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
Secondary interests also include Spatial Databases and GIS, Information Retrieval,
Information Technology Management
Honors and Awards:
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Ranked 13th in the nationwide computer science graduate studies entrance exam
among more than 11,000 applicants, 2003
Distinguished as an “Excellent Student” for two consecutive semesters in the
bachelors degree, 2002
Awarded the TAKFA Research Grant, Iran’s Supreme Council of Information and
Communication Technology, 2005
Fulfillment of the M.Sc. thesis with “Excellent Level” evaluation and full grade, 2006
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Awarded the University of Alberta FS Chia PhD Scholarship (Approximately 16
awards are offered each year)
Membership:
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Facility for Advanced Computational Intelligence and Applications, Faculty of ECE,
University of Alberta, http://www.facia.ualberta.ca, 2009-now
Database Research Group (DBRG), Faculty of ECE, University of Tehran,
http://ece.ut.ac.ir/dbrg, 2005-2009
IEEE Computer Society Student Member, 2006-2007,2010-2011
Teaching Assistance:
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Data Mining, 2008
Database Systems, 2006
Software Engineering, 2005
Discrete Structures, 2003
Computer Programming, 2003
Publications:
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A. Zarnani, M. Rahgozar, C. Lucas, & F. Taghiyareh, 2009, “Effective Spatial Clustering
Methods for Optimal Facility Establishment”. International Journal of Intelligent Data
Analysis, 13(1), 61-84.
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A. Zarnani, P. Musilek, X. Shi, X. Ke, H. He, 2010, “SVM Regression of NWP forecasts for
Predicting Ice Accretion on Power Lines”. To be submitted.
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H. Amiri, A. Zarnani, M.Tavallaee, S. Abedinzadeh, M. Rahgozar, F. Oroumchian, 2008,
"Investigation of the Lambda Parameter for Language Modeling Based Persian Retrieval".
The 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems (INFOS-08), Giza, Egypt.
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A. Zarnani, M. Rahgozar, C. Lucas, & F. Taghiyareh, 2007, “Spatial Data Mining for
Optimized Selection of Facility Locations in Field-based Services”. IEEE International
Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining, Hawaii. April 1-5, 2007, IEEE
Press.
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A . Zarnani and M. Rahgozar . 2006, “Mining Spatial Trends by a Colony of Cooperative
Ant Agents“, In Proc. SIAM Data Mining 2006 Workshop on Spatial Data Mining, Apr.
2006, Bethesda, MD.
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A. Zarnani, M. Rahgozar, C. Lucas, and A. Memariani, 2006, "AntTrend : Stigmergic
Discovery of Spatial Trends". 16th International Symposium on Methodologies for
Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2006, Bari, Italy, September 27- 29, 2006, LNCS Springer Verlag.
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F. Taghiyareh, A. Zarnani, M. Tavalaee, M. Siadati, 2006, "Business Process Redesign in
Software Organizations Based on the Software Quality Management System Standards", The
Second National Conference on Information Communication Technology Management
(IRICTM-2006), Tehran, Iran.
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A. Zarnani, M. Rahgozar, and C. Lucas, 2006, "Efficient Discovery of Knowledge from
Large Geo - Spatial Databases: An Evolutionary Approach". International Conference on
Data Mining, The 2006 World Congress on Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and
Applied Computing, WORLDCOMP'06, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,
June 26-29, 2006.
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S. Soltan, A. Zarnani, R. AliMohammadzadeh, M. Rahgozar, 2006, "IFDewey: A New
Insert-Friendly Labeling Schema for XML Data", International Conference on Computer
Science (ICCS-06), Budapest, Hungary.
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A. Zarnani, M. Rahgozar, C. Lucas, 2006, “Nature - Inspired Approaches to Mining Trend
Patterns in Spatial Databases". 7th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering
and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2006, Burgos, Spain, September 24- 27 2006, LNCS
Springer – Verlag.
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R. AliMohammadzadeh, M. Rahgozar, A. Zarnani, 2006, “A New Model for Discovering
XML Association Rules from XML Documents”. In Proceedings of the Third International
Conference on Knowledge Mining, (ICKM-06), Prague, Czech Republic, August 25-27,
2006.
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R. AliMohammadzadeh, M. Haghir Chehreghani, A. Zarnani, M. Rahgozar, 2006, "W3Miner: Mining Weighted Frequent Subtree Patterns in a Collection of Trees", International
Conference on Pattern Analysis (ICPA-06), Budapest, Hungary.
Professional Experience:
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Project Manager and Executive: Ghadir Distributed Library Management System,
Iran Ministry of Science, 2003-2004
Researcher and Executive: Business Intelligence System, Iran National Bank R&D
Center, 2005-2006
System Analyst: National Demographic Geographical Information System, Statistics
Center of Iran, 2005-2006
Technical Manager: Advanced Digital Library System, University of Tehran, IT
R&D Center, 2006-2008
IT Officer: Informatics Center, University of Tehran, 2006-2008
Business Intelligence System Analyst and Designer: Product Management Group,
System Group Co., 2007-2008
Software Architect and System Analyst: IT Department, Tejarat Bank, 2008-2009
Research Assistant: Facility for Advanced Computational Intelligence and
Applications, University of Alberta, 2009-now
Selected Implemented Projects
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Design and Implementation of a “Metadata Management System, ETL and OLAP
System” for a comprehensive business intelligence project (MS SQL, 2008)
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Design and Implementation of a “Spatial Clustering System” with a user-friendly
interface including eight different algorithms, namely K-means, PAM, CLARA,
CLARANS, TB, Modified-TB and proposed algorithms of Fac-means and XCLARANS (VC#, 2006)
Design and Implementation of a user-friendly “Spatial Trend Mining System”. The
system included three spatial trend discovery algorithms two of which were designed
and proposed using Ant Colony Optimization and Genetic Algorithm. The discovered
trends were also analyzed and properly visualized. (C#, 2005)
Design and Implementation of an “Object-Relational Wrapper for MS SQL Server”
(C#, T-SQL, 2005)
Design and Implementation of a “Language Modeling Information Retrieval System”
on a Collection of 200,000 news documents. The system included both indexing and
retrieval. A judgment interface was also implemented. (C#, 2005)
Design and Implementation of a “Character Recognition System using Neural
Networks” (Perceptron, SOM, Back-propagation) (C#, 2004)
Design and Implementation of an “Advanced Object-Oriented Graphic Designer
System”. The designer was multi-layered containing about 25 different graphical
shapes and 20 various types of graphical actions (such as crop, erase, etc.) The output
was an object-based format of our own or a bmp and jpeg output (VC++, 2003)
Design and Implementation of a “Visual Simulator for Static and Dynamic Hashing
Methods” (VB6, 2002)
Selected Technical Reports
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Application of Data Mining Techniques in Customer Relationship Management,
Professor F. Taghiyareh, 2005.
The Field Service Module in a CRM System, Professor F. Taghiyareh, 2005.
Application of H.264 in Video Streaming, Professor M.R. Hashemi, 2004.
Successful Management of Information Technology: Australia Post Case Study,
Professor F. Taghiyareh, 2004.
Concepts and Applications of Knowledge Management in an Enterprise, Eng.
Abdollahpoor, 2007.
Metadata Management in Business Intelligence, Eng. Davanloo, 2008.
Software Skills:
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Software Engineering Applications: Rational Suite, UML modeling tools, Case
Studio
Database Systems: SQL Server 2005, Oracle10g
Programming Languages: Visual C#.NET, C++, Visual Basic, T-SQL, Pascal
Web Development: ASP.NET, HTML, Javascript, XML,
Operating Systems: Windows, Unix/Linux
Business Intelligence Suite: Microsoft BI Suite (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS)
Office Applications: MS Sharepoint, MS Project, MS Office Suite
GIS: ArcGIS
Scientific: Matlab, Weka, R
Other Activities:
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Playing the Guitar and teaching the how-to sometimes
Doing extra readings and wandering in various scientific fields (Physics, Biology,
Management and others)
Hiking (a lot, compared to the typically too busy people in Tehran)